Category Archives: Canadian Press

YEKATERINBURG, Russia - More than 5,000 people with tickets skipped Uruguay’s 1-0 win over Egypt in Yekaterinburg on Friday, the worst-attended World Cup game in eight years. FIFA said it is inv...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is offering supportive words for U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft after a suspicious white powder was found in an envelope addressed to the American emba...

WINNIPEG - You wouldn’t think a field-goal kicker would have the greatest focus at 1 a.m., but Sean Whyte did. The Edmonton Eskimos’ 10-year veteran booted a 44-yard field goal with eight ...

TORONTO - A woman who sabotaged her boyfriend’s highly coveted career opportunity apparently because she feared he would leave her for the United States has been ordered to pay him $350,000 in d...

OTTAWA - Progress on the government’s cannabis legalization bill and all other work in the House of Commons was put on hold until next week, thanks to a Conservative filibuster that forced an al...

NEW YORK - Natalie Portman says her Harvard classmate Jared Kushner has become a “supervillain.” The Oscar-winner actress said on CBS’ “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Th...

Coach Kingsley Jones will see familiar faces everywhere he looks Saturday when his Canadian side takes on Russia at Ottawa’s Twin Elm Rugby Park. Russian forwards coach Alexander Voytov was Jone...

OTTAWA - Canada needs to get its act together and pony up big bucks for wildland conservation if it’s going to reach its international commitments, says a federally commissioned report. It says ...

The final legislative session ahead of October’s provincial election wrapped up Friday, and while parties have already started campaigning, Premier Philippe Couillard said Quebecers would rather...

SUGAR GROVE, Ill. - The owner of an Illinois hardware store is looking for a man who tried on a pair of snug work gloves and left a ring inside. Mark Driscoll of Ace Hardware in Sugar Grove, Illinois,...